Tag: Pets and Animals

This file photo shows a mouse lemur. The earliest mammals were night creatures which only emerged from the cover of darkness after the demise of the daytime-dominating dinosaurs, researchers said Monday. This would explain why relatively few mammals follow a daytime-active or “diurnal” lifestyle today, and why most that do still have eyes and ears […]

Bees are more likely to seek out and pollinate taller, more fragrant plants than shorter varieties without a strong fragrance. Photo / AP Bees can help flowers to grow bigger and smell more fragrant, scientists have discovered. Swiss researchers found that plants evolve differently depending on the insect that is pollinating them. Tests on a […]

Dallas Seavey, four-time Iditarod winner and reigning champion, is aiming for his fifth Iditarod crown in six years. Photo / AP A father and son are battling for the lead in Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Mitch Seavey, a two-time Iditarod champion, was the first musher out of the checkpoint in the village of […]

A moose on the loose caught several skiers and snowboarders by surprise as it galloped headlong down a run at Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado. Cheri Luther was snowboarding on Friday when she saw the moose approaching, and she shot video of the large animal coming within feet of her. Luther, who kept snowboarding, is […]

The Cincinnati Zoo has called again on a canine to play the role of nanny for other animals’ babies. The latest assignment for Blakely the Australian shepherd is to be a companion for three Malayan tiger cubs. Their mother’s maternal instincts didn’t kick in after their Feb. 3 birth, and zoo staffers have been caring […]

Rhinoceros Vince, centre, at the Thoiry zoo, west of Paris. For the past decade, poachers have killed rhinoceroses in the wild and in protected reserves around the world at alarming rates, threatening the survival of four of the world’s five rhino species. The poaching is driven by a demand for rhino horns in southeast Asia […]

Police on the scene as the body of a missing boy they found in the Murray River is removed on Saturday, March 4. Photo / Hamish Blair A cross-breed dog became an unlikely hero last week when, according to police, he acted to protect a young boy in danger. But animal behaviour experts says it’s […]

Vince arrived at Thoiry from a Dutch zoo in March 2015, along with another white rhino called Bruno. Photo / Thoiry Zoo A zoo director says a 5-year-old rhinoceros at the wildlife park he runs near Paris has been shot three times in the head by poachers who stole the animal’s ivory horn. Thierry Duguet […]

Tierpark Berlin zoo’s polar bear cub Fritz has died after being struck down by a mystery illness. Photo / Zoo Tierpark Berlin Berlin’s Tierpark says a polar bear born at the zoo last November has died. The zoo, in the eastern part of the German capital, says 4-month-old Fritz fell ill at the weekend. Vets […]

The baby elephant was helped on the side of the road by three truck drivers from South Africa. Photo / Facebook A truck driver who stopped to give a baby elephant some water on a scorching day was condemned for smoking during the encounter. Footage uploaded on to Facebook by Chantelle En Rudi Beyleveld shows […]

Tossing coins in a fountain for luck is a popular superstition, but a similar belief brought misery to a sea turtle in Thailand from whom doctors have removed 915 coins. Veterinarians in Bangkok operated on the 25-year-old female green sea turtle nicknamed “Bank”, whose indigestible diet was a result of many tourists seeking good fortune […]

An elephant, in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, allowed viewers a close approach via a boat drifting quietly through tall grass. Photo / AP There’s an old saying that elephants never forget. You also can say they almost never sleep. Scientists say a first-of-its-kind study tracking the sleep behaviour of wild elephants found the world’s largest land […]

Humpback whales are a type of baleen whale. They have a filter feeding system inside their mouths called a baleen. Photo / Getty Images Baleen whales communicate with songs and can hear the lowest frequency sounds of any mammal – some of which are so low (less than 20 hertz) that even humans can’t hear […]

The British researchers said the bumblebees showed “an impressive amount of cognitive flexibility”. Bumblebees can teach one another how to score “goals” with a tiny ball, displaying a learning ability never before seen in insects, a study has shown. The bees surprised scientists by working out how to use a novel tool to obtain a […]

Matthew Mitchell was working in a shed with his father when he was bitten on the finger by the deadly funnel-web spider. Photo / 123RF A 10-year-old boy has required what’s believed to be the largest dose of antivenom administered in Australia to survive being bitten by a funnel-web, on the NSW Central Coast. Matthew […]

High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini answers journalists’ questions before a ministerial meeting of EU/E3 and EU/E3 with Iran at the EU headquarters in Brussels on May 15, 2018. (Photo by AFP) The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has stressed that there is no “alternative” to the […]

In this AFP file photo taken on October 31, 2017, former US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, Illinois. Former US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have finalized a contract with American entertainment company Netflix for production of films and documentaries. The company made […]

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